Insanity Quilt

Monday, April 15, 2013

RAG RUG WITH CIVIL WAR REPRODUCTIONS FINISHED

RAG RUG USING AUNT PHILLY TOOTHBRUSH TOOL.  MEASURES 27" X 49"
I ENJOY MAKING THESE AND THEY ARE GREAT FLOOR MATS THAT WASH UP BEAUTIFULLY


THERE ARE PROBABLY ABOUT 16 YARD IN THE RUG WHICH MAKES THEM SO STABLE AND NICE


THESE ARE GREAT FOR USING UP YARDAGE JUST HANGING AROUND IN YOUR STASH.  I LOVE THE HODGE PODGE LOOK YOU END UP WITH. EVEN IF I START WITH COORDINATING FABRICS I USUALLY RUN OUT AND HAVE TO FIND SOMETHING TO ADD TO THE RUG. EACH ONE IS SO UNIQUE.  HAPPY RAG RUGGING!

Aunt Phillys Website with toothbrush tool

Friday, April 5, 2013

Sea Turtle Parade

I finished one more UFO:  Sea Turtle Parade.  I started this kit a number of years ago and happily am finished.  I got to finally try out applying Swarvorski Crystals with the Kandi's crystal applicator tool. It worked great.
I quilted it with oceany swirls around the applique and outlined the applique with some interior lines as well. The quilt is now on our family room wall over the TV so we get to enjoy it when we relax on the sofa.
This pattern is by Mount Redoubt.

The Sea Turtle "Honu" is one of my favorite sea creatures, along with dolphins.  I always think of the hymn, All things bright in Beautiful, lyrics:

                                                   All things bright and beautiful,
                                                   All creatures great and small,
                                                   All things wise and wonderful,
                                                   The Lord God made them all. 


  when I see these wonderful animals.













Sunday, March 31, 2013

HAPPY EASTER! HE IS RISEN






May your faith be renewed by the Holy Spirit this Easter as we celebrate the resurrection of Christ the Messiah, our LORD.  May you feel His grace and acceptance for the first time this Easter too. He died and rose for us all.

Monday, March 25, 2013

EASY STREET FINISHED HURRAY!

The joy, elation and satisfaction of finishing one of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilts is just great.  I whine so much in the middle, I'm not sure I deserve to be so happy, but I am!  Yeh! shouting from the mountain tops, or at least from the top of our stairs.

All I can say to someone considering doing the mystery quilt next fall is, don't miss out.  It stretches you into new skills,  leads you to the assembling line method of getting lots of cute building blocks done, uses up stash that is left lingering on the shelves, and encourages the blending of colors that I know, for myself, I never would have dreamed of.

Thanks Bonnie for being the wonderful teacher and encourager that you are.

Now for pics of mine. It ended up 96" X 96" quilted. I did a really small stipple allover, with a mountain mist "New" 1/8" poly batting. It was nice and airy and soft and flat. I love how it gave the quilt that neat old fashion flat look without the heavy weight of cotton for such a large quilt. I used a wide back gray flannel from Joann's. And even with the flannel the poly batting helped to make the quilt not weigh a ton and crush me or its future user! My gray, lime green and white tone on tone were one fabrics, and the turquoise and purples were scrappy. I used up big chunks of stash which was my biggest goal. The binding is a couple of pieces of turquoise blue batiks, cut on the bias because I curved my corners so the quilt wouldn't hit the floor on the corners. I used this method of getting a lot of bias binding out of the cut piece. Quilting Nanny: bias-binding-tutorial . This great gal based her tutorial on another wonder gal, Shelley's excellent instructions! bias tape tutorial with all the info you need . It worked so well I don't think I will go back to straight of grain bindings.















Monday, December 24, 2012

EASY STREET - PART 5

I love the look of these sectionsThey are so pretty with the turquoise and purple combination!  Merry Christmas everyone!

Monday, December 17, 2012

EASY STREET PART 4 - FLYING GEESE SQUARE UNITS




64 FLYING GEESE UNITS COMPLETE!   I have to figure out why my pics are a little yellow, oh well.  Lot's of work and errands this week so I'm glad to be done by Monday.

I just got my new Sew EZI Table on Saturday and it is good as the reviews that I have read on the internet.  It is holding my quite large Viking Diamond Deluxe and is as steady as can be.  The insert is high quality and fits like a glove.  It looked good studying the pics on the site, but it is even better when you actually see it up close.  Living in So Cal, it literally came in 2 days!!! Thank you Barbara at SewEZI!



The other table is my IKEA galant 48 X 24 table, which is the nicest smoothest sturdiest table and an IKEA drawer set.  So reasonable and so nice. You might recognize the chair from Arrow Cabinets. It is really comfy.

I love that I can move these pieces around if I change rooms or need to rearrange for whatever reason.

Hope all you quilter sewers have a happy week.  It is just me, or is everyone humming the Drifters' version of "White Christmas" from Home alone that plays at least twice a day on the radio." bump bump bump bi bump bi bump"....It always puts me in a good mood through out the day!

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Insanity Quilt update


I realized I need to update my progress.  I haven' t gotten very far but I have completed some more!

Having switched my hexie cutting method from Inklingo to My Accuquilt Studio Hexie die cutter,  I don't have the wonderful lines of the Inklingo, but with a Frixion pen and cardstock type cut out (from printing one on Inklingo), I have an exact finished 1/2 inch hexie size to easily guide my running stitches.

Even though I have questioned myself about switching to the english paper piecing way, it is still two steps while it is just one with the regular running stitch method. With the pieces being so small it is quite doable.  And, I love they way the press out in clockwise and counter clockwise seams. No one will ever see them, but they make the block lay beautifully.

So if you still love EPP, the inklingo works great for printing the hexies on cardstock you have laying around from some unused cards and are easily cut with a rotary cutter.

I might try EPP on a bit bigger hexie project sometime.


Total                          Completed
1422                                324
448                                     0
1068                                   0
2012                                   0
5389                                   0
10339                              324



Diamonds
158                                   36
Flowers
64                                       0